Meena has over 20 years’ experience of working with marginalized populations through grassroots rights-based organizations in Karnataka and Maharashtra (India), particularly with people in sex work, on HIV, sexual and reproductive health, violence against women, poverty alleviation, gender and sexual minority rights. Most recently, her focus has been on violence against women within the global context, and sex workers’ rights movements. Meena has strong technical skills in human rights; gender; HIV; sex workers rights; violence against women; collectivization and democratic processes; team building and development; training; community mobilization; evidence-based national and international HIV policy formulation; proposal development; report writing; and public speaking.